NASA is the most trusted brand in the space business, but throughout the decades of space exploration, other nations also went where no man has gone before. And here are their ten most significant achievements.

10.) Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer

Using a different approach than the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, the Hayabusa 2 will land a German/French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout on an asteroid, which will drop plastic explosives, roll to the other side of the rock to protect itself, detonate penetrating the surface and analyze the samples from the crater for a year and a half.

9.) Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise

Space X is one of the most exciting companies out there, even if they weren't the first to came up with the idea. But at the same time, let's not forget about a certain British billionaire who also wants to fly high.

You know how rockets fly upward and then just land wherever? That's so 20th century, man. Elon …
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8.) India's space program

India is building rockets. They used to rely on Russian tech, but aren't far from getting fully independent. Communication and observation satellites, and ambitious plans for extraterrestrial exploration. We shall see, but their Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is pretty badass.

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7.) China's Lunar Rover

It's called the Jade Rabbit, which is pretty cool. The other fact about the Chinese space effort is that they're sending more rockets up there week by week than the rest of the industry combined, successfully.

It was was equipped with a unique 23mm Rikhter rapid-fire cannon mounted on the forward belly of the station, modified from the tail-gun of the Tu-22 bomber with a theoretical rate of fire of 1800-2000 (up to 2600) rounds per minute.

ALMAZ (which was the military designation of the russian Salyut space station). Why is it cool?…
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5.) The French probe of Titan

The Huygens spacecraft landed on the Saturn's moon in 2005 after traveling for more than seven years. It also sent back some nice pictures, and remains the the most distant landing man-made object as of today.

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